A MacBook Neo on the left and a Dell XPS 13 on the right with terminal windows open. On the left is a source code snippet and chat window, on the right is the same chat window except on the XPS 13.

Nothing to see here, just a MacBook Neo and a GNOME OS laptop talking to each other via the #p2panda #GObject bindings for #Go . They even found each other via mDNS!

(Needed a 5 line patch to the Rust build config, but that's it - everything just kind of works!)

i think a big part of why i love immutable data is because i'm afraid of computers

nine inch noize is the best nin album in a quarter century. a+

How one programmer's pet project changed how we think about software YouTube video by CultRepo

12 minutes in and this is such a delightful and lovely story already. ❤️

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y24v...

#clojure

fun app and libadwaita updates in this week's twig (errybody excited about goblin), but i'm the kind of dork who's most excited about wordbook going 1.0 ... it might be my most-used gnome app. ❤️

this week's foundation update's beefy, too:

blogs.gnome.org/aday/2026/04...

#gnome #goblin #gremlin

Discourse is Not Going Closed Source Cal.com just closed their source code, arguing AI has made open source too dangerous. After 13 years of building Discourse in public, we're staying open. Here's why.

blog.discourse.org/2026/04/discourse-is-not...

This.

for a second i thought that was a cigarette.

smart of the flamingo to realize his stumpy little legs are too short to reach the pedals without getting down from the seat.

ctos and senior staff engineers in my alumni networks going "please star my github project, bro" but it's just a bash script with a loop and a markdown file named `SKILL.md` which contains the words "ok, try even _harder_ this time, robot"

what is even happening

so neat. i’d love to know where the “kind of” qualifier comes from, though?

very excited to watch their new gjs demo

Bootstrap node terminal output on the left, two chat CLIs running on the right

#p2panda 's GObject library running inside of Flatpak, called from #puregotk (Golang) - and it all kind of just works, including mDNS discovery?

twisp and catsby stuffies

zomg. store.penny-arcade.com needs to sell these twisp and catsby stuffies for ... for children we know. yeah.

my niece would love these, probably.

the cover of "the real world of technology" with a head and a floppy disk

p bought me a book from the farmer's market today.

"i bought this for you because you like technology"

i definitely like this cover, i'll tell you that much. i'm 100% here for mind-meld floppy disk

busl license changes are impossible to measure/predict - see link

the boozle has always been a bad license template (the busl itself isn't a license). there are many things wrong with it, but this is one of the worst.

github.com/captn3m0/fin...

"source available" is always a scam.

#opensource #busl #osi

typst almost feels ... too easy? 😅 all my latex wizardry and shell scripts are no longer needed.

having a native #gnome app isn't just icing on the cake... this is one less time i have to open emacs.

* forced multi-script font rendering, if i want it
* complex ligature support for words like "क्ष्ण्य", "कार्त्स्न्य", or "अ॒ग्निमी॑ळे" that might not even render correctly on the computer you're reading this with

AND IT WORKS WITH MY BIBTEX ❤️

* easily configure 2 builds so i can print my whitepapers in both "normal" 2-column layout and a convenient 1-col layout for a friend who requires the latter for a small e-reader
* automatic hindi / pāli / sanskrit rendering into a separate font, based on unicode range

okay. wow. i am late to the @typst.app party and i regret every line of latex i've written since i heard about it.

problems it solved for me in a matter of seconds that require insane hoop-jumps in latex:

you were gonna try "producer" but i think "tastemaker" would look good on a business card. photo of you smoking a pipe and staring directly into the camera

One hopes images like this, when paired with the knowledge that everything we burn ends up in that tiny slice of gasses, would help contextualize why we need to move away from energy sources we set on fire.

One hopes. Climate communicators should make some hay of this.

screencap of 6 different GTK builds

4am on the nose. time to sleep. commit messages have already degraded to their minimum.

once again, i'm in awe that anyone does this for a living.

there's a very real chance this blurb ("the role of the human") becomes the sort of thing people print out and tape to the paper towel dispenser in the office kitchenette.

fantastic.earth/@bagder@mast...

"a tsunami of useful security reports" is new. equal parts scary and interesting.

elsewhere: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sd2...

probably

ow my brain

it's old, bro

next up: gotta get a mastodon account so more gnome people will actually see this. ;)

i'll post it over there, though.

Great news: My little voice typing app for Linux is now available on both Flathub and Snapcraft. Links for both here: www.speedofsound.io/getting-star...

i'm at the summer camp we rent for meditation courses, doing a little painting.

i think this coffee was roasted in celebration.

in 1945.

I thought for sure that this must be fake, surely even @microsoft.com would not have the gall to say this while simultaneously spending millions on advertising to small business owners that they should rely on Copilot.

But nope it is right there.

It's interesting how clearly Google vs Apple shows up in something as small as virtual devices frames.

iOS simulator: sharp, natively rendered
Android emulator: transparent PNG, rough corners with jagged edges